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Private Mallory Grennan had done terrible things as an Abu Ghraib prison worker. After being discharged from the army, Mal thought she was leaving her sins behind to start a new life back home. But some things can’t be left behind – some things don’t want to be left behind!

Information about edition(s):· Postscripts #10 was made in three formats: A regular hardcover, a signed limited hardcover of #300 and #150 signed limited in slipcase.
· The chapbook from Subterranean Press came with Tales of Dark Fantasy in three formats: Softcover chapbook, signed limited softcover chapbook numbered #267 from whom #26 lettered and a traycased edition of #52.

The story starts as follows:THE FIRST THUMBPRINT came in the mail.
Mal was eight months back from Abu Ghraib, were she had done things she regretted. She had returned to Hammett, New York, just in time to bury her father. He died ten hours before her plane touched down in the States, which was maybe all for the best. After the things she had done, she wasn’t sure she could’ve looked him in the eye. Although a part of her had wanted to talk to him about it and to see in his face how he judged her. Without him there was no one to hear her story, no one whose judgment mattered.